Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The announcement was made by W.F. Mitchell, Safeway, Oakland, California, who said Templeman, 59, had elected to take an early retirement."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Cleveland's Rick Manning is out at the plate despite a desperate dive in effort to score on a ground ball to short by teammate John Lowenstein in the first inning of Sunday's game in Oakland."

The Accelerator Division was formed as a separate division of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in 1973. Originally called Physics II Division, it acquired its present title when Andrew M. Sessler was designated Director of the Laboratory in November 1973. Under the leadership of Associate Director Edward J. Lofgren the major activities of the Division comprise operation of the Bevalac, for high-energy and heavy-ion physics, and Advanced Accelerator Research and Development. In addition, there is a small amount of research activity with heavy ions by some members of the Division. Heavy ions were first accelerated in the Bevatron in 1971. In the period under review here a large effort was devoted to construction of the Bevalac project, in which the SuperHILAC is used as a source of energetic heavy ions that are transported down the intervening hillside by a focusing transfer line, and injected into the Bevatron for final acceleration to an energy of 2.6 GeV/nucleon. This facility is unique in the world as a source of relativistic heavy ions and has opened up a new and rich field of research that has commanded worldwide interest. Joint studies with the staff of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center on a positron-electron colliding …